Trade Corridor Transparency and Security - The Innovation Journal

The Innovation Journal, Volume 8 (4), 2003
immense reservoir knowledge, expertise and good will on which the parties may
draw.
11. Spine network: In the UCR II vision, the spine provides the global communications
environment for a new Internet of commercial and trade documentation. The scope
of the proposed spine facility is illustrated below. Using a distributed processing
architecture, the “spine” would provide border management and security authorities
of participating economies with dynamic access to every supply chain at any stage of
transaction completion and permit on-the-fly merger of this intelligence with relevant
information from government files in order to do comprehensive risk analysis. Direct
accountability for the quality, timeliness and authentication of data inputs will fall on
each participating supplier for their own inputs, rather a consolidation by one or two
overburdened parties before the file is submitted to public authorities.
RISK ASSESSMENT
• Where-who-what equation is determined
sufficiently to manage overall risks.
IDENTITY/ROUTE
• Unique, encrypted tag (UCR II) assigned to
each movement and affixed to each “profile”
record developed by any party at any stage of
the transaction.
• Functions like a transponder or an IP address
for each primary buy-sell transaction.
• UCR II ID also affixed to all other supply chain
records that bring in subcontracts under the
primary buy-sell transaction.
• UCR II switched to “inactive” on these records
once the trip is completed, but these inactive
“histories” can be accessed via data mining
across the spine as part of the where-who-what
risk assessment for a new active trip.
NOTICE
• Notice of the route and the UCR II number sent
to each jurisdiction included in the route.
SPINE/UCR II
• Parties maintain secure 24/7 access to UCR II
records.
• Record system integrity regularly verified
through new ISO standard for security
practices.
Finding A Champion
The foregoing discussion deals with the ‘what’ and the ‘why’ of the UCR II vision. In a
context where multinational or global action is the preferred result, the final critical issue
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